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Would you ever believe in someone if there was no solid proof?
An excerpt from LEAP, written by yours truly:
"...I believe I’m just another animal who just so happened to be born. If I get in trouble because I spilled hot sauce all over the floor from spinning the lazy Susan, it’s no one’s fault except for mine. If I fall in love, but get my heart broken because I‘m a bit strange, that’s just me too. Life does suck, life does fill me with indescribable pain sometimes, but at least I don’t have to battle to survive. I don’t have to keep looking for my next meal, or my next home. At least I get to live.
It’s just life.
And I’m going to live my life like any other human, and die when the greater power wants me to. My greatest goal is to happy, that’s all.
I want to be happy. Simple, yet the simplest things in life are often the ones people can’t explain because it’s easy to believe you should just know already. Like the word, ‘the’.
(And if you know the proper definition, shut up, I’m trying to make a point, darn it!)
The story I’m going to tell you is the story of my life… or at least what I wish it could be.
And in life, I’ve made so many choices, some wrong, some right; some made because I didn’t want to hurt someone, and others were because I had no choice. Did fate control the last of those choices I just listed? Maybe, but the choices that made the beginning of my Junior year of high school different than the end of the story I am about to tell were the ones I made in the dark or had to take a leap of faith for. I didn’t know what to do, didn’t know who to ask, or I realized I trusted a certain boy more than I should have (especially since I trusted him more than I trusted most of my friends whom I have known for years). But those choices defined, chiseled, and shaped me when I needed that strength and form the most.
I suppose that is life: you, the people around you, ideas of religion, fate, etc., and choices.
Faith and life. It’s simple, and hell, I’ll just start from the beginning. It won’t be perfect, and as much as I want you to, you won’t be able to enjoy my life as much as I had. But I’ll use the words I can use, and I hope you’ll enjoy it anyway."
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Kelee (pronounced, 'kay-lee', not, 'kel-lee') is your average joe in her world. When she hit puberty, she got a special, unique power just like everyone else, but unlike her peers, Kelee's power has one little, tiny flaw: it's practically useless. I mean, who needs thread-like fibers coming out of your body? Their only use was to protect her and only her from harm (i.e. a rubber ball aimed at you, and you don't notice).
The power was supposed to reflect who she was, and she believed that she'd rather not have her power if that's what it reflected of her: a selfish person who only cared about protecting herself. To top it off, her friends all got very useful powers, each reflecting them perfectly. And while they never pitied her, Kelee was indeed jealous of them; her jealously made it hard to really connect with them.
Afterschool, on a strangely crowded and hot day, Kelee met Jonathon. A troubled boy, she was instantly smitten, even if he had gotten in trouble several times with the principal. Well, even if she didn't know it at first, she was subconsciously taken with him.
From that day on, Kelee was slowly drawn farther and farther away from her friends and family's world and into Jonathon's small, tightly knitted one. She was introduced to his musical sidelife and his irresistable voice drenched by his powers. She met his two best friends, one of which was lax and flirtatious while the other wanted to bite Kelee's head off for taking her, 'Jojo' away. And while the pair had friends galore and other lives beyond music, Jonathon only had that: his two best friends and music.
Or so Kelee first thought. When both family and friends warn her of Jonathon's dangerous power, she doesn't know what to think. So, he had an overly pleasant voice that could anyone melt, boy or girl. Jonathon actually paid attention to her and her weak powers. But when Kelee accidentally stumbles upon a haunting secret Jonathon and his friends had been keeping, she's both horrified and wavering. But intriguied and hopelessly attracted to the boy named Jonathon, Kelee must choose:
Take the safe route, break Jonathon's heart along with her own, and let him take on his, 'lies' elsewhere, or ignore everything her loved ones have been telling her, save everything, her town, her school, her friends, her family, she's come to love, and take a 'leap of faith'?
Note: Bored.
 Ukeire · Tue Jan 11, 2011 @ 11:38pm · 0 Comments |
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